I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.

Love isn't a choice. I can't control how I feel about him any more than I can control the sun in the sky. But what I can do is control what I do with those feelings.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.

My government career is over.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.