My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way.

Ordinary people think you are crazy when you attempt the impossible, deride you when you are halfway to achieving it, and envy you when you achieve it.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.