Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.