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

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 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.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

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

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.