Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !