An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last cigarette that you've already had.

Smoking is suicide by instalments.

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

why do I sleep? Because I dream, and that is where I hear the best stories and find the hidden destinations of life.

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

That's what I stand for, telling people you can be just who you are. It's actually more beautiful.

I was a very, very good congressman.

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself!

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.