Climax: It's all downhill from here.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Do you remember the time, Mike, ” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

The best kind of day is a writing day

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

Simple smile, a cheerful hello or a word of encouragement It's amazing what an impact you will have.