You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.