One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.

Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.

Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.

You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.

Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn]

Art is a kind of illness.

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

I like having a song in my head that's never been heard and then going into a studio and recording it and hearing it exist in the world. It's a magical part. Filled with wonder.