The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)
All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
New York is a weird place.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
All the women in my family were superb cooks.
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
The Tea Party claims to want small government.
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
My confession: I listen to great music very badly.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
