There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

There are pieces of me on the ground.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.

That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me