The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.