Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

The deeper the journey into inner space, the further the possibilities in outer space.

The more you believe in yourself, the more the world believes in you!

People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality.

Training was one thing, reality another.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

A small deer came into my camp and stole my bag of pickles. Is there a way I can get reimbursed? Please call.

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

God does give us the history of his people.

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.