The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

Good enough is never good enough.

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.

The place where the prince of darkness reigns is a place of humiliation

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

You will attract everything that you require. If it's money you need... you'll attract it. If it's people you need... you'll attract it. If it's a certain book you need... you'll attract it.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

Many many people find themselves wondering in their 40s and 50s, is this all there is?

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Nature...cannot be fooled!