But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

I'm drawn to roles that people don't think I'm right for.

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.