A book is a machine to think with.

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Omitting sacrifice will gain you nothing...He is the striver, who sacrifices delight, ail, sympathy and slumber, and at the terminalStriver is the WINNER.

What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed.

The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.