What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

A good beginning makes a good end.