Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

God, let me remember all good losers.

I believe that having something new happen, no matter how small, is what makes for a healthy day, no matter how many days may be left.

Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.

It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you