The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.

Your own humility endorses your integrity!

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.