There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.

I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.

Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

I don't want people to feel like they'd overdosed on too much candy.

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.