He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
Once a week I would meet up with the coolest teacher and we'd go over my work. All my friends were like, Soooo. . . once a week at lunch you meet up with Mr. Schulenberg to talk about poetry. They all thought I was having sex with my teacher. But I really just loved to write and it was a nice outlet.
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.