The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it. ' If you really want to write, writing has to take precedence over everything else, except for taking care of your loved ones. It has to be more important than any possession, more important than fame. We hear about just a few writers who get famous, but most of them don't. It's got to mean more than that.
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.
We invite people working for peace to span generations and national boundaries, and gather together to communicate. Let us firmly join hands and foster an even stronger network for nuclear abolition and peace.
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.