I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

One is inspired only in solitude.

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea of what the answer will be.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

You are capable of more than you ever thought.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.