. . . a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.
Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them