He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Children always forgive their mothers. That's the way God's designed them. He gives them two arms, two legs, and a heart that will cry 'mother' until the day it stops beating.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance

I am the hero of Africa.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

You can't be hesitant about who you are.