If there is one thing I refuse to do, it is to drown.

Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.

Anger and resentment are problems for our understanding and vision. They happen when we are away from our real purpose and mission.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

All my years to this momentAll my roads to this wall.All my words to this silenceAll my pride to this fall.-Songs of Sapphique

A little lifting of the heart suffices a little remembrance of God one act of inward worship are prayers which however short are nevertheless acceptable to God.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.