Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Survival is triumph enough.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness-