I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Sometimes no quotation works

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

Isn't it a coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time?

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

A person may forget 90% of what a leader says, but he will never forget how the leader lives.

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.