It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me, will you. Stop defending yourself.

Get lost in the beauty and tranquility of nature to find your true self again and again.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

Christ lives and will cleanse, heal, guide, protect and strengthen us.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.