Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.