Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

Blind cat jumps with faith you should too.

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

I like to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit rock n' roll, other times more girly and feminine.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.