It's all about letting the story take over.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

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