Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

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.

The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development.

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

The cross is suffering with Christ.

The only way to find out is to find out.

This Reese's Chevrolet was downright awesome.

Life's a long and winding ride, better have the right one by your side; And happiness don't drug its feet, time moves faster than you think.

Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails.

To philosophize is to learn to die.