If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

There is no light greater than truth, and it shines at the heart of all creation.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

It is much better to be addicted to the Word of God than to be in a critical condition because you didn’t pray

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.