Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.