My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart.

Wizard's Fourth Rule There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.