Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.