"Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics."

“Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.”

“It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.”

“I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.”

“The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

“As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly , then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article by Albert Jay Nock, in which he proved that the Jews are an Oriental race that is incompatible with ours. He was not punished and the magazine was not destroyed, strange and almost incredible as that seems today.”

Source : "A World Grown Grey With Their Breath". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, January 1988.

“Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.”

“I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.”

“But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.”

Source : Patrick Carman (2011). “Stargazer”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.