Stories are for joining the past to the future.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Zapped while zipping.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Stories can save us.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

All that is popular is not always right. All that is right is also not always popular. Somewhere in between, lies all that is real!

Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

Keep the inspiration alive and reach for what you want

If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

You only get one shot at a second chance.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.