Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

Much in our lives is chance.

A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.