A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella
Trump's - has great negatives, enormous negatives, a lot of people say they simply won't vote for him. So if he's gotten media, maybe it hasn't done him so much good.
Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek.
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.
We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.