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.

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

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

The problem with death is absence

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.