My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

The problem with the church is the church

Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

I dwell in possibility.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

A nation must think before it acts.