Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.