I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.

Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. They protect them from falling bricks, I guess.

[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression.

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.