What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

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.

I had a dream about you last night. It wasn't until after you sold me the talking car, I realized you were the world’s best ventriloquist.

Our society puts more weight on success through acquisition of temporal things, but God requires us to long after those things that have an eternal value.

Live vertically, not horizontally.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.