A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

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.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

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

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

I don't want to leave.

You fulfill your hearts universal desire for love not by accumulating, but by giving.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, 'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

Who are you?" Ethan Nakamura. I have to kill you." ??

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.