Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.