Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Well, everybody has a history.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.