Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Being happy on seeing others happy is happiness multiplied.

... back then the sky seemed so vast. And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.

Challenges bring opportunity for growth.

Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth.

When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.

There is always something new out of Africa.

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.