Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

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.

If the creation of the Universe was left up to a atheist, we would still have nothing.

Not every dog that barks, bites.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

In school I was pretty fast.

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

I am steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife.