My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God. "
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.
I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.