All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself