People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
Keep passing the open windows.
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.