I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.