I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.

God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmanns Romeo and Juliet.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

In my day we used to have pray to run into an ex looking great, but now you just post a selfie in your underwear.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

May the best man win That's about right pup