Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life.

She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

The schedule is crazy - it's all suitcases and hotel rooms and you just go nonstop. It's a crazy lifestyle, it really is.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.