Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the air, not even birds sang.

We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.