The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

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.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.

I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

You are What you do When it counts" - Armor

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

By and by never comes.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.