In The Compact Between Novelist And Reader,

I Wanted To Use What I Was, To Be What I Was Born To Be - Not To Have A 'career', But To Be That Straightforward Obvious Unmistakable Animal, A Writer.

Paradise Is Only For Those Who Have Already Been There.

What We Think We Are Surely Going To Do, We Don't Do; And What We Never Intended To Do, We May One Day Notice That We Have Done, And Done, And Done.

Traveling Is Seeing; It Is The Implicit That We Travel By.

If We Had To Say What Writing Is, We Would Have To Define It Essentially As An Act Of Courage.