You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.