Politics isn't in my nature.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

If you are only worried about not making a mistake then you will communicate nothing

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

Black does not appear in the rainbow of hope.

We are most asleep when awake.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.