The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

People can only be found in what they do.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.

They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

Treat me as I am, and that I shall remain.Treat me as I wish to be, and that I shall become.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.