Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity.

Stories require faith, not facts.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

American leadership is essential.

I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?