Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

In a lot of ways, I'm seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I'm a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.