Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.

Conscience unlike a beard does not grow overnight, you have it or you don't

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

I don't wish that I didn't have the screaming girls.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.