Unadaptability is often a virtue.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.