There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

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

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.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

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

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

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