Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop..
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..
Then why don't you go and ---- yourself..
Love which economizes is never true love..
For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition..
Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so..
Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audib….
You can only get outside yourself by looking inside..
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty..
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible..
The main thing is not to be dead..
Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living..
Never hope for it more than you work for it..
The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not..
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life..
Failure is a part of success..
I'm the git in the family..
Women complicate everything..
You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.
Women don't have an expiration date..
There were things that I knew that I was going to keep to myself..