It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.