There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.

I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?

I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!

If God didn't want you to have it, He would never have let you see it.

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.

Rocher was on the floor, crawling on her stomach toward Jate's feet. "I love you..., " she kept repeating, in a demonic whisper. "I have to show you... my butt.

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.