I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Everyone has got something to give.

Life is a field of cosmic consciousness, expressing itself in million ways in space-time through quantum entanglement

By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again

I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.

It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

I am funny, but I'm not about funny... I'm about peace & justice.