A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.
No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.
Good Music creates an intersection between heaven and the soul
When our actions are based on good intentions our soul has not regrets.
Talking about unpleasant things during a meal is not good for digestion, not good for health.
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
...moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.
It takes a special ear to appreciate the many sounds of good music.
Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on s...
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be, Much ple...
History, lie of our lives, mire of our loins. Our sins, our souls. Hiss-tih-ree: the tip of the pen taking a trip of three steps (with one glide) down the chronicle to trap a slick, sibilant character. Hiss. (Ss.) Tih. Ree. He was a pig, a plain pig,...
I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let's think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world. The alternative is that we stultify, we shut down. T...
Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hou...
Anger is a good motivator.
Eighteen daughters beautiful as goddesses are not as good as one crippled son.
Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.
He who is too proud to ask is too good to receive.
There once was a good mother-in-law but the wolf gobbled her up.
