To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Love and honesty don’t mix.

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

I transform fiction into memory.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Leadership amongst the crowd is often the one who has the least to gain and the most to offer......-bns

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.

Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.