History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.

Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'