I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn’t tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receive Christ as your Savior, you are going to be lost.

Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

NASA sends probe to Uranus, people everywhere giggle.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.