Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.