A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.

Any man that puts other family first before his own immediate family is sure heading for a future disaster because

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.