This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

Serving God demands a lot of work

If a wizard should take up residence in your garden and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.

Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

The news that gives you a future with hope, in spite of your despair over the past, is realizing that Jesus has prayed for you and is praying for you now.

I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.