I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.

It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

He turned his gaze upon her, and their eyes not only met, the pupils shook hands, exchanged business cards, and sat down for tea together.

Food is just the greatest joy on the planet.

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.