I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

I'm a process server, so I have to wear a suit.