A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

Let’s shut down the EPA. The state knows best how to protect resources.

God is Good...Jesus is Lord Be Good to Yourself and each Other J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself

I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.