One single letter cures the blank page.

Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.

The more you doubt your talent and strive to improve, the better the writer.

. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons.

I'll tell you a story about Johnny Magory!

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy.

His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it?

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.