By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

As you focus on the greatness of God, the difficulties of life will dissolve.

If you haven't got a hernia yet, you ain't pulling your share.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.