I never wanted to be a pundit.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Don't Become An Artist, Actor, Muscian, Producer or Writer, Etc, For Only The Money. You May Be Very Dissapointed.

The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.

Values are like Jell-O. They take time to set.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.