From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.