If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.