A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

It is not your duty to run from the devil but resist him and he will flew from you.

Neither compares nor competes.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

If we don't face our fears, our fears will chase us forever.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.