It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.