The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!

If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs.

Treat your fiends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

I got married and basically forgot about Elvis. Then Speedway came. That was the most fun of all, to see him every day all those weeks.