Jess Walter Quote

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I been...

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.