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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it
The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.
The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.
I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.
Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.
Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?
To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.
When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.
I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.
Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.
Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?
The getting is easy; the keeping is the important part.
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.
Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.