We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity.
The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.
Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.
I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.
As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.
He was a great man. And he was also me.
The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.
Your dream is a good one. [. . . ] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.