The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort is under way to establish a national league of professional volleyball teams, and if you have ever seen the great women's teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

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

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort is under way to establish a national league of professional volleyball teams, and if you have ever seen the great women's teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.