Occupation: Writer Birth: June 23, 1936
Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all:….
Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficul….
Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his cr….
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof..
I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love..
How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?.
In spite of my study, I have learned. Every grand religion begins in light. Yet only hearts hold light. Pages cannot. I have paper in my hands. ….
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn….
In order to win, you must expect to win..
We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe..
You seek problems because you need their gifts..
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight..
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling eng….
With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it..
We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs….
You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live..
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinkin….
How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?.
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that….
I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much..
Hate is love without enough data..