Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

The Holy Spirit gives power for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

You can attain your highest potential.

You keep doing that and your camera is likely to explode.”“Are you crazy?” Alfred smirked. “My camera is like me.” “How so?” “It adores you, ” Alfred told him.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.