He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Participate in your own dreams, don’t just say what you want or complain about what you don’t have.

Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.

If ever we are to study the Scriptures, if ever we are to spend time in prayer, if ever we are to win souls for Christ, if ever we are to invest our finances for His kingdom—it must be now.

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.