Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

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.

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.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can’t see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can’t manage them.

She didn't want to be considered a woman yet, wasn't ready to be the recipient of jewelry from men.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.