To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you