God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.

The beauty of a loving smile has a timeless freshness.

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights)

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

I embrace everything.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

A man's mind is elevated to the status of the women he associates with.