I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

Why did you shoot him?""You weren't around, " I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.

Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.