Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.

History happens one person at a time.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

For me, Barack Obama represents grace, respect, betterment and community.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.