As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

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.

To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest sign of true love.

I like your anger, ' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.

People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.