The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

Your jobs come back under a Trump administration. Your income goes up under a Trump administration.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

All that is beautiful shall abide, All that is base shall die.