Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.
A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.
I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I a...
Stegner shows us, again and again, that it is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendship, we spark an...
I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.
Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability.
Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting.
As moonlight unto sunlight is that desert sage to other greens.
I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption.His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and h...