A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.
An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless.
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.