All writers have the idea that they are famous.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.

Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.