What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

One does not consider style, because style is.

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.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

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

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

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.