The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker

The best blessing that you can give is your beautiful smile.

Writers do not find subjects

...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Persistence and discipline. Without those two, you have nothing, no matter how talented you are.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

Time just gets away from us.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.