I Think Nobody Owns The Land Until

Details Are Our Business As Writers. Your Heart Leaps When You See A Detail That Can Go Somewhere

The Willingness To Accept Responsibility For One's Own Life Is The Source From Which Self-respect Springs.

Self-respect Is A Question Of Recognizing That Anything Worth Having Has A Price.

I Could Talk More Directly In A Nonfiction Voice Than I Could In Fiction.

I've Come To A Much More Controlled Idea About Death And Loss, But I Don't Think It's Possible To Come To That Much More Controlled Idea Until You've Gone Through The Crazy Part . . . I Don't Mean That I'm Controlled. I Mean That I Gave Up The Idea That I Had Control. That's The New Control.