It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

What else is soul but a listener?

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.

War is too important to be left to the generals

We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green!

I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.