It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.

Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

...the still point in a turning world.

Time,--the most independent of all things.