The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.