What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.

I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you.

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.