The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.
We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine through us.
If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.