Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.

The saved moment is the true art of love.

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

All people want to be touched.

Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.