One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.

I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's something about the act of writing that organizes thoughts and memories.

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

I have to keep testing myself.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

I never rode a motorcycle before CHiPs.

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

When God doesn't change a circumstance, He can change our hearts in knowing that He can change all things for the good.

I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.