The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

You don’t look like anyone special at all, ” I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And I make a magic spell to get rid of him.

And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.

I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.

I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Joy comes when we have the Spirit in our lives. When we have the Spirit, we rejoice in what the Savior has done for us.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.