The only real nation is humanity

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Time owed an alliance to the undying.

Training is a necessary tool.

The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.

The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary; Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary, You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.