From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

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 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."

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

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

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.