For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...

It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done.

Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.

Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.

Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn't. Both had always existed. Neither could be chosen.

Attributing to another author, "Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

Gratitude needs to come back in a big way and I hope to encourage people to get involved.

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.