Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.