The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.She shook her head.He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart, " he told her, and left.

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service.

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

I think you believe in these words, I think - three very important words, peace through strength, right. Peace through strength.

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.