I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.