It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

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.

The people who would praise you for living lavishly, would be the same ones to laugh at you if your were to find yourself in the pit of financial crisis.

Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.