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

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

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.

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.

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