Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

It still hurts, " she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

People talk to you and they try to convince you that they like what they do just because it sucks less than what they used to do... which sucked a lot.

All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.