The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.