I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

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.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers.