I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

Nothing good ever ends.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.