Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.
Louis AuchinclossA 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.
Louis AuchinclossThe only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
Louis AuchinclossA neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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