I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Heartbreak, death and loss were shared between us, but renewal, commitment and strength as well.

Never seek permission to be yourself. Revel in your own beauty.

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.