To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

There is no telling what he will do! A bind, I know he will have to unglue. This day will surely reveal a clue. Beware of the Deetkatu!” Trinity, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.

Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars.

A lonely impulse of delight

Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

Don’t get discouraged if you stumble at times. The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.