"Dreams are necessary to life."

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."

"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection"

"Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time."

"What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out."

"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."

"Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."

"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms"

"Born to be wild - live to outgrow it."

"Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax starve also"

"But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die."

"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"."

"Children make your life important."

"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."

"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is."

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you throw practicality to the wind and start living."

"I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed."

"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a"