A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.

As you think, so you are.

Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

If you haven't done your mental homework in training, you don't have anything to fall back on when you face.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.

The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit.