The call to write does not respect background or experience.

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.