That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness.

Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.

Sometimes, we need to accept that life doesn’t always go the way we planned.

I doubt even you can begin to understand the depths of her.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.