"Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-conscious…"

"Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Franci…"

"These women, like writers, have no time clocks to punch, no waiting boss. I write in the morning before teaching, and…"

"Very early, I understood that women were required to be other than what they were."

"...and I believed that everyone but those kneeling in front of me saw, and that was the source of my vanity and my co…"

"...my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; h…"

"Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because th…"

"Living in the world as a cripple allows you to see more clearly the crippled hearts of some people whose bodies are w…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."