All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

Use the smallest word that does the job.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

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.