What’s the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don’t get any deader.

The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.