“And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you…”

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.”

“Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.”

“Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.”

“Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.”

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”

“I want the word that burns into my heart
Like God's coal alive on the Prophet's tongue.
I would listen now while memory is ablaze
To seal your testament within my soul.”

“Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.”