“My deepest gratitude goes to those we’ve quoted — men and women who labored long and hard to express in a few words a lifetime of experience; others who rarely wrote but paused in the middle of a busy life… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of… — Sy Safransky Copy Share
How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe. — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
“My deepest gratitude goes to those we’ve quoted — men and women who labored long and hard to express in a few words a… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
