Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

If you don’t know where you are going, ask those who have been there.

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

The power to accomplish the life of your dreams rests with none other than you. Whatever holds you back is also within you.

What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?""Over my dead body.""Could be, Tim, could be.

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

It is your minds that are moving.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.