I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom.

When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.