Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

You are consciousness dressed in form, my love. Consciousness is divine. Matter is divine. Creation is divine. Everything is divine. Are you somehow the only exception?

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]