God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

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.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.