Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.~Anna Percy

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. “Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?

What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.