Writing, for me, is a search for God.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling the present.- From Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003

The one-legged never stumble.

We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So when we are in the mess, remember Jesus made it right. We got to hang on to that by faith.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.