If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

He's just not that into you if he only wants to see you when he's drunk. If he likes you, he'll want to see you when his judgment isn't impaired.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.