Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

No one thanks you for showing them the light.

I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.

Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Love lost can be found again.

There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.