It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Often what we struggle with becomes the foundation of our greatest success.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

Good-bye, Graystripe. I love you. Take care of our kits.

There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.