Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.

Console the failure, but nurture the hunger.

The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything.

Never forget the past.

Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.

Blaming has no positive effect at all

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness