United States writer (born in 1944)

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk

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