Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

No one said parenting was easy, but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.

I'm not going to toy with you tonight. A kiss was more than I bargained for, but, little wife, that f*cking kiss is just the beginning. Tomorrow is a brand new day.

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor, " said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.