Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.