What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.