The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.
. . . is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.