My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.