We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

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.

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Never forget the prime purpose of your life.

Humankind is but the pieces in a game, plastic soldiers waging war between boy gods.

We already had three steps behind us."Hold on, Lia, " I whispered. Hold on for me.

I'm afraid my jealousy is a beast I find difficult to tame, " he said with a sigh.

I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.