So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. ….

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has ….

Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular….

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in….

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want..

What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you….

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from..

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars..

The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or gi….

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist..

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic..

Digression is the soul of wit..

... bums on the outside, libraries inside..

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper..

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we m….

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?.

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you ….

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries..

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?.

Beware the autumn people.

Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces o….