Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.