The soul is never quiet till it comes to God. . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.
We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.
Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.
Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.
A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.
One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
It's funny how people who we fight with the most at the end of day are the ones that really got your back.
We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of. . . a much more integrative experience.