He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

The more trouble you get a man into, the more comedy you get out of him.

If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesting to play.

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.