It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.

It is a world, " he said, "filled with the mysterious joinder of accident!""It is a world, " replied Abner, "filled with the mysterious justice of God!

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

You can make anything by writing

To understand the soulis to master the soul

Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.'

Leaders don't make excuses. They create results