He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' . . . and then he opened his eyes.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.