A writer's mind can never be empty.

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

There couldn't be a resolution, because life doesn't end on a schedule. It ends in the middle, every time.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us.

Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place.

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.