There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

...she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation.

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.

The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.

And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne.

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

Ronnie's new nickname is IFF. The I'm F*%ked Foundation. He's a client and the president!

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.