Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?