What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
The novels that attract me most. . . are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing. . . out of which you can’t make anything.
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It ain't made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.
The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.