Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?~Jack or The Submission

I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty, " sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves.

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?