If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.

Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things.

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

Some affixes are wildly promiscuous.

I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate.

Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.

God is my HOPE.

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.