Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Whoever sees the Saviour, the light of life, shall be satisfied in spirit.

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

Only you can find your sacred path.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

There could be oil coming up until August.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

Money will only make you more of what you already are.