Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

Most of my reading is rereading.

Be prepared before you fight a battle" -RH

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

They import and they consume reality.

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.