To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply. We waste it; we pollute it, and doctor it. Later we blame the quality of the water because we have misused it.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.