The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

The problem with death is absence

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.