The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

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.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.