if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

Speech isn't for agony.

The novel is rescued life.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.