The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

Why not add benefits for making healthy food choices, provide a transition bonus for getting off food stamps, or increase job training opportunities and income - raising minimum wage?

Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Imagination is the greatest nation in the world!

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?