Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

True love

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

If Math was a woman, we'd be married already.

On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.