Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

I always had good students.

To reach your Destination, you need a Direction, but you can't get there without Inspiration!

Life's a one way ticket

Living the life I wanted was my ultimate responsibility. Learning to forgive was my ultimate act of self-love.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.