The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.
A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.
Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.