The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Those who love dogs, know something about God.

At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?

In real friendship the judgment the genius the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.