We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Life is for service.

Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction.

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.

You Call This One And It's All Over, Baby!