In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right.

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.