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

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.

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

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

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

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.