The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Every call of Christ leads into death.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it