The turtle couldn't help us.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.