Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.

It takes but a moment to fall in love

Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it present

Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.