I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

What else is soul but a listener?

Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden.

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.