Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

To be alone was my best interest because needing myself was looking for you

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.