When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

In a deck of playing cards, the reds are as important as the blacks.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

I appreciate the mistakes I made in the past cause it is shaping my future.