Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.

Writers need to be open to trying new things. My first bestseller was a cookbook, and from that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly.

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.