Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

The imagination never dies.

My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

Don't turn on monitization, typically, until it's going to be significant.

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

Once our hearts are open, all existence appears naturally beautiful and harmonious.