It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

I say let Matteo Renzi work. He took over a country that was in disarray, not florid. And not the other way around.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.