An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.