There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.

Sometimes the rainfallsjust for you and meto be the violinplaying in the backgroundof our loneliness's song.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?