Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.