Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.

Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.