In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

We are all capable of loving.

As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

God helps the brave.

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.