No one can go back, but everyone can go forward..

Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, togeth….

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time..

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable..

My Precious, my Precious..

When I say nothing, I say everything.

Any woman is sexual, absolutely..

I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that I wasn't capturi….

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading..

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading you….

It's over. Absolutely, completely, eternally over.

If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the co….

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you..

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages..

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself..

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play..

Outward change comes after we change from within.

I am myself and I am here..

I was put here to sing..

Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely..

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens..