I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.