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The formless cannot be based on the form. The form needs to be based on the formless.
I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.
I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.
It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.
Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.
Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.
The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.
The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.
The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.
The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony
"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.
Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.
Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.
God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!
Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.
Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.
Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.