Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.