I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Most people miss an opportunity because they fear to knock on the door.

Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.

The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.

Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It's about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.

The piano is not firewood -- yet.