With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

when you fall into darkness do not spend all your energy and light rather than to remain in darkness.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

there are many Africas.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.