Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell..

Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bre….

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths..

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does..

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizen….

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts….

Belief does not change what is..

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul..

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it..

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself..

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list..

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned..

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with..

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look fo….

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination..

Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss..

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mea….

She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh..

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life..

One does not know where love will take you..