A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude of him to persist in it. It was distracting.

God ever works with those who work with will.

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.