Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others...

Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)

I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday

It's a long old road but I know I'm gonna find the end.

My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.