"A peaceful heart knows that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"Wisdom principle 2 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 73."

"Things do not change; we change."

"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."

"Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."

"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."

"A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day."

"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."