All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.