People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

I don't travel so much now, I get tired

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.