Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.

why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

True religion is not just in the creed you profess, but its also in the life you lead.

From start to finish, my experience with 'Moonlight' has been the most unique thing.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.