It's great to be around people and it's thrilling and exciting, but it jangles me.

In the South there are so many different ways of talking, and there's the, you know, educated Southern speech; there is midlevel, sort of salesman Southern spe…

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're…

Ergo vivida vis pervicet et extra processit longe flamentia moenia mundi atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.

Give a soldier an anvil, just a hunk of metal, and drive him out into the desert and leave him. In two weeks - when you go to get him, the anvil will be broken.

'Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society - the social ramble ain't restful'.