Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Respect is love in action

A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time.

Our Heavenly Father has created a blessing just for you every day.

Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.

I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.

I decided to be what crime made of me.

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.