Art is not to throw light but to be light.
I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
I think a lot of parents are afraid to express certain emotions about children who are different, because they think that it's wrong to feel chained sometimes, to feel anger, to say to yourself, "I never wanted this. " I think it's natural.
If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.
I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.