In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.