I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

I knew every raindrop by its name.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.

Be Generous with your Kindness, Compassion & Forgiveness.

Ships are safe at Harbor, but that's what they aren't meant for.

Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

God's Word refreshes our mind and God's Spirit renews our strength.