I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

What a man loves may be his ruin, but what a man ruins he can never truly love.

Conclude that your are worth achieving beyond your expectations

Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead, ” the woman said. “I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.

J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

Worship is an exercise of the Holy Spirit directed primarily to God

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.