Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

You will never be as smart as your subconscious.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.

No one likes to talk about the positive parts of getting older and aging into orphanhood, how with your parents you often bury a lot of things you were never able to confront or fix or let go of.

Don’t blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

All I know is what I am getting.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.