Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.