Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

The rhythm of breath may have been our first language.

I’ve always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit.

Everything beautiful hurts.

Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.

For the first time in his life, Stony felt it. It ran like a hot wire, up from his spine, to the base of his skull. His mouth opened on its own.He wanted to bite. He wanted to bite hard.

Duty eats free will for breakfast.

There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.

I love writing different things.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Some people talk the talk and walk the walk while I'm silently running.

What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.

That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.