The happy childhood is hardly worth your while..

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Sto….

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace..

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper….

Keep scribbling! Something will happen..

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him..

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes..

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

After a full belly all is poetry..

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow..

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words..

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room..

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your w….

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life..

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery..

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with..

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the….

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head..

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it..

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale..

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever..