If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.