I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him.

Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.

If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

Heritage saves no one.

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.