the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians, ' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human beings.

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

Now I'm in the process of fine turning.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

I'm a guy who doesn't like to be alone, and the joy that my friends pass me, with them being always by my side, is gigantic.