We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.

Tune in to the intuitive messages emanating from your heart. They are the essence of who you are and who you wish to become.

Hit me with spit on the wounds.

Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

I always try to do the most interesting, fun thing for me.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'