Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?

Love is easy, and I love writing.