At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

The thought is just as strong as the consequence.

Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.