They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supp….

It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morn….

The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchang….

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you..

I work whenever I'm let..

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction..

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.….

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do..

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good..

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of br….

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members..

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on..

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going..

If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes i….

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint..

The past is never where you think you left it..

I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I sup….

And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They des….

What we need is endless courage..

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story..

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own..