This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.