You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?

Make life your playground, not your battlefield.

If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.

I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.