We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

a wish... that we may, each of us, with utter regularity, melt into the truth of our inescapable beauty.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!