I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.