Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

Success is often a series of small accomplishments that lead to great results.

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.

Never deceive a friend.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.

The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.

I'm a dad and that's pretty important.

All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.