I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Good writers touch life often.

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.