“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”

“The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course”

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”

“A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.”

“There comes a time in a (wo)man's life when to get where (s)he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall.”

“A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise.”

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it . . . Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing.”