Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Nothing is always absolutely so

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.