... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

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.

Where did you get your sadness from? I picked it up on the side of the road. Itwas bleeding and scratched and keeninglike a mangled thing, but it looked toobeautiful for me to just walk away.

The limitations you embrace become your life. Choose to be limitless!

Loneliness is a state when you have not yet grown to love yourself enough.

I am in love with the green earth.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.

Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal men may live in eternity.

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

Despair makes priests and friars.