Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime.

The written word is what distinguishes us from all other animal life forms on this earth.

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.