You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

I gave you the best of me.

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.

You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.