Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father

A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Hopefully 10 years from now people won't even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.