Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.

I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

Selfless giving is a guaranteed way to increase feelings of love.

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.