When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.