Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Don't care what people gonna think of you, do what you wanna do and seek just your happiness.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.