What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people

There are people that say they will do better but they never do better. They have no power in them to do better until they come to Christ.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.