But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

Class is classlessness.

The simplest science book is over my head.

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

Everything happens for a reason. Wait on God and trust in Him. He wants the best for us. He wants to take us from glory to glory, and from victory to victory.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

All we are is in the soul.

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.