Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the... →
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the... →
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be... →
Dan Chaon
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary... →
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have... →
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone... →
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin