Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.""I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.""But it keeps not ending.""So far, so good.

The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

My style is all to myself.

Every good thing you do changes the balance in the universe.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.