Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.
Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.
You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.
Are there glass shards in my anus?
The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.