Remembrance is a strange thing. With love its pain is bearable. With bitterness it simply destroys.

You can overcome any situation with positive attitude.

When we will learn to live in harmony with nature, we will learn to live in peace with each other.

Our calling is connected to our area of dominion.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

I find Donald Trump to be very kind and generous. I find him to have a great sense of humor.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.