Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ceremonial praying is hard on Billy.

I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women

If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.

Embrace high expectations from “demanding” parents if what they are demanding is your positive growth and learning.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms was impossible, so he just went ahead and did it anyhow.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

A heart of peaceIs always the bestProblem-solver.