I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

The only real nation is humanity

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.