The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.