“Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.”
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
“The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.”
“I think a writer is not an ideal husband. . . . Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they’re living with, or they get irritable with the people that they’re living with when the people insist on being noticed.”
“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”