After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.