“All writers are waiting for replies. Thats what Ive learned. Maybe all human beings are”

“It's been well-thumbed, at least triple-read, there's that smell the fat orange-spine Penguins get when their pages have yellowed and the book bulges, basically the smell of complex humanity, sort ...”

“You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.”

“When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these...”

“Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.”

“It's a blindness thing, faith.”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must ...”

“knowledge without creativity is useless creativity without knowledge is meaningless”

“knowledge without creativity is useless ,creativity without knowledge is meaningless msa”

“The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong a...”

“Violence is avoided, when we sit down with others, and discuss issues, and work together for solutions.”

“I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.”