"I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them."

“When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.”

“The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.”

“One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.”

“Sometimes,” Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.”

“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.   The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.””

“The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.”

“Ill wéede growth fast.”

“In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.”