Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.