Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Writing is an antisocial act.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.

I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.