Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen.

He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

No man should be angry with what is true.

We will have rings and things and fine array