But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.