The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

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.

To travel is to live.

Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.

She knew her place in this family, always had. Knew why she was conceived. And it wasn't for a photo on the mantle.

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

I was a closet stutterer.

All you have to do is recognize an opportunity.

When you're jumping so high for something so far up in the sky, you have to know that there is definitely someone there who can catch you, someone who knows how to catch you and when.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.