Focus on what's next, not what came before.

Popular versus literary—a false divide?

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

The devil never gave a gift for free.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.