Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.