“Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.”

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.

The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.

It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.

As long as one suffers one lives.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

All good novelists have bad memories.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

If you’re not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don’t exist.

Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy.

Content is king, but context is God.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.

Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.