We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.