Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Without endurance, how can we overcome any difficult?

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)

Focus your thoughts on what you want in every area of your life...the more you think and focus on something, the more you will bring energy to it and make it happen.

I'm too short to be strong!

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.