It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul
I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.