words can never get at the truth..

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away..

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to ….

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life ….

One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able….

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing..

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else..

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it..

Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living i….

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each o….

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it..

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked..

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons..

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity..

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards ….

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited..

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child..

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..

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.….

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are n….