And I am in retirement from love.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

Your ability to support your plans with a great strategy is the master skill for success.

The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.

The best way to bring up some children is short.

Against Steve Johnson at the Olympics I was down a couple of times.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.