I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

Getting married is easy, but divorce is very difficult

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction, ' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Hell is paved with infants skulls.

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.