Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Goodness had nothing to do with it.

The most effective missionsries always act out of love

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

The meaning is in the waiting.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

Either you have dreams or you live your dreams. I'm not all that remarkable. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other until I get to where I have to go.