It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want

There is thin line between smile and laughter.

The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes.

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Each profession has its own toolkit.