“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

“There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second i...”

“Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.”

“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. ”

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undert...”

“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”

“You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not wor...”

“Todays living people are much more important than tomorrows yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the ...”

“I love to connecting with people to help others who's exactly like you.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”