But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.

You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she’s mean.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

I was bruised, but I wasn’t broken.