There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.

To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.

We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship.

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist's job is to find the bull among the matador cells

If you want to have a well-ordered church, then you have to become well-ordered yourself.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do