I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

The highest form of wisdom is often hidden in simplicity.

It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible.

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

I have a gift. I just know what I'm doing.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.