If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

History as the slaughter-bench

In the NFL, everyone's attacking, so you have to be quicker in your decisions.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.