Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?

The lack of unconditional self-love usually breeds the hunger for attention.

We are also creatures of romance. Books love to portray us as the mysterious visitor in the night that you invite into your bedroom and then your bed.

Christian love must be chased after, aspired to, and practiced.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.