But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise.Here is the essence of north—and it's autumnI've chosen as this year's friend.

With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

I am told that very early on in this transition process, to expect that [Donald] Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court.

Big results require big ambitions.

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.