Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

We are to live for the dominion of God’s kingdom

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.