In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

Those who complain much get little, those who complain little get much.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.