Draw a straight line and follow it.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

The wound is the seed of wonder.

There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.

I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.

You´re my son, Ed. You might be idiotic and irresponsible, but it doesn´t make the slightest difference to what I feel for you. I´m pissed off that you could have thought it would

Like Solzhenitsyn, I shall return, one bright dusk.

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.