Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

We choose to do things that make us Cry. We don't know Why? We blame the Sky. We do not Try. Oh My! What a way to Die!!!

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.

Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.