You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

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.

The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.

I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

Spirituality is connected with practicality.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

And for me to have my name mentioned among some of the Super Bowl MVPs that played in the Super Bowl, words can't describe it. It's totally a dream come true.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.