A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

World is so beautiful when you look beyond your self-interest. Success and self do not work together. Rise up the ordinary.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

I'll always be a Golden Eagle

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.

Reprisals are but a sad resource.

Don't be afraid to show your feelings. Wear your heart on your sleeves. The right one will see

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.