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“I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of whether or not we have health care, but it may affect the way people who see the play think about the issue.”
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“I'm not even a household name in my own household”
Source : "Sacrificial lamb gets a roasting" by John Rawling, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2001. 
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“It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.”
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“[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.”
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“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.”
Source : Venita VanCaspel (1986). “Money dynamics for the new economy”, Simon & Schuster
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“Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.”
Source : Mark Akenside (1744). “The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three Books”, p.136
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“However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.”
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“Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.”
