Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.