Writing should beguile us, not just take us from A to B to Zzzzz

Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.

To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.

Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good.