“A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...”
“Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.”
“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”
“Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.”
“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
“I'd rather be an ordinary person doing extraordinary things, than being an extraordinary person doing ordinary things.”