Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

Only a fool is not afraid.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.