Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

Be careful of what we say or do on this earth as every word and every action has a return.

In life, you often get what you expect.

It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

I'm old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm.