I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.

The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.