The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.