But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.