Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

You don’t need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!

Anger keeps us down and hinders from moving forward.

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

If her artist's eye had given her nothing else, it taught her to see beauty where few others noticed it.

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.