It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

You have more potential in you than you can possibly use up in an entire lifetime or even in several lifetimes. Stop making up excuses and believing in limits.

We can’t ask God to come and fix our nation while we have not done our absolute best. This ought not to be so!!!

and love is a word used too much and much too soon.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.

Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see.

I don't even know what I don't even know.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.