Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

the only thing left to do is love

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

I think that when you don't know, you should wait until you do.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.