My brain is sending poison to my heart.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

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.

THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!