Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

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.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

Research tells us that fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.