And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.