What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

What nature creates has eternity in it.