I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Make peace with what is.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.