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

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.

Peace is not the absence of intolerance Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance.

One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.

You deserve someone who is utterly obsessed with you.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

Actions are more precious than words