It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

The world is stuck because of the word ‘no’.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk