Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.