Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
those who have loved are those that have found God
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
The more a man judges, the less he loves
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.
It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
The arts don't exist in isolation.
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
I've always thought my poems told stories.
