I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

I don't do intoxicants on tour too often. It slows me down mentally, and it feels like killing brain cells.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland and Georgia.