White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

Are you happy?

Future is ours, but victory is mine!

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.