Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

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.

What others think about you is none of your business.

It felt bizarre to be ignored in general, much less by an embodiment of Aidan--who used to stare at her so hard that he'd run into trees.

There is always something good to love about your life. You just have to take some moments of your time to reflect on the brighter side of it.

If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

My mother always wanted to give back.

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.