The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God. ' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey. '
Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.
Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red. "
I enjoy writing plays most. I haven't written a radio play in a while and I don't write short stories anymore because the process of submitting them depressed me. I really enjoy revising novels, but drafting them can be a pain.