I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.