Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

You have to walk with the Creator to find your soul.

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

[Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise.

We are born of love. Love is our mother.