There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.