[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe
Is it not the singularity of life that terrifies us? Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? Shakespeare over and over demonstrates life’s sing...
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
Know Thyself, a wise old Greek once said. Know Thyself. Now what does this mean, boys and girls? It means, be what you are. Don't try to be Sally or Johnny or Fred next door; be yourself. God doesn't...
Without warning, David was visited by an exact vision of death: a long hole in the ground, no wider than your body, down which you are drawn while the white faces above recede. You try to reach them b...
Though old himself, he disliked old men.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
We shed skins in life, to keep living.
Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.
No soul or locale is too humble to be the site of entertaining and instructive fiction. Indeed, all other things being equal, the rich and glamorous are less fertile ground than the poor and
One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Yes, well, years. Some die young; some are born old.
The assurance from the dictionary had melted in the night.