I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

A book can take you to another land, even if just for a few hours. --Cat Spydell

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate

And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too.

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.