What else is soul but a listener?

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.

The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.

The world’s deadliest mercenaries choose to serve you, the whispers say, because they have yet to meet me.

someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?and i said(object): i give up..!!!

I would live at the beach if I could, and I love dancing.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.