What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?