There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

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

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.

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.

If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!

I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.