She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

Let your thoughts and intentions always be forgiving and loving so that you may bring true peace to mankind.

The sun doesn’t live in England

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.

Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.