That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

They say that time Heals everythingBut they dob't know youAnd the scars you bring

It's only life. We all get through it.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I am a giant squid of anger.

There are 2 main things I've learned about following the Holy Spirit: It will never be easy. It will never be boring.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.