A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. "It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic." - The Demon Trapper's Daughter

A gentle spirit, a kind heart.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.