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

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

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.

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.

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.