That is one of the bitter curses of poverty

If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

You always have an option to opt between, 'You will always remember' and 'You will never forget'.

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.