I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

She began sobbing again. “I’m not ready to die.

She was dangerous. I’d heard the rumors, that she had a history as a wild woman, that she’d been married to a gambler, maybe even been one herself, that her past was scandalous at best. But who was I to judge? My past was littered with scandal.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

...always-the sharp,plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

I 'd never seen him cry

If you go up HUMBLED, you'll come down PROUD. But if you go up PROUDLY you'll come down HUMBLED.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shot - he could accept it all more easily than he dared to admit. But the grief implicit in Tereza's dream was something he could n