Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

There are a lot of ways to pleasure a woman, ” he said, and his tone suggested we hadn’t even begun. “Hard and raw, soft and sentimental. How can I know what she wants until I see how she reacts?

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.