A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain

If knowledge is lacking, your destruction is inevitable. Hosea 4:6

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.