The Time-honored Role Of The Artist [is]

Literature Is Where I Go To Explore The Highest And Lowest Places In Human Society And In The Human Spirit, Where I Hope To Find Not Absolute Truth But The Truth Of The Tale, Of The Imagination And Of The Heart.

Free Speech Is The Whole Thing, The Whole Ball Game. Free Speech Is Life Itself.

I Admit It: Above All Things, I Fear Absurdity.

In The End, You Write The Book That Grabs You By The Throat And Demands To Be Written.

There Is Nothing Like A War For The Reinvention Of Lives.