If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness..

The great god Pan is dead..

It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart.

I'm just someone who observes a lot..

This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will….

We all become what we pretend to be..

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived..

It is not what you do. It is that you do..

Leadership is more doing than dash..

To be is to stand for..

I've never been onstage in my life..

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown..

Things that don't exist do exist. They're just really fast..

I've always put myself intensely into my work..

I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western edi….

Fear is the biggest motivator..

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater..

The sum of things there is no power can change, For naught exists outside, to which can flee Out of the world matter of any kind, Nor forth from w….

I've always been interested in making movies..

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categor….

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally..