The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.

If we don’t do our best and constantly ask God for miracles, it means we are objurgating our responsibility to God.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.

I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.