Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

It is the people who are displeased with injustice that can be a channel for social justice.

The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring.

Believe in yourself. Determined to pursue your goals.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.

Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?