Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

It’s my opinion that only in times of utter depression or lofty peace is it appropriate to be creative.

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a man contented.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things.

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that, you have to go back to the voters.

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.