Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find difficult to identify and articulate. It is interesting to me to work through questions that arise in this way.