Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.