One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

May my children, fear, know and walk with God.

Don't ruin a good story with the facts.

...she was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.