There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

Magic is something that surrounds you all the time! Always be happy no matter what happens!

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

Let's all give God a great big hand. I've seen the last page of the bible and it's going to turn out all right.

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It's time for a new theory.

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.