"There should always be something gratuitous about..." - Quote by John Updike

“I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.”

“You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.”

“I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.”

“THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.”

“Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.”

“It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.”

“The universe really is motion & nothing else.”

“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.”

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.”