We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.