I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

I don't think I'm ever afraid, but I doubt myself often. Because of that doubt, I constantly strive to make myself better.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.

If you're gonna watch the Drive-By Media, don't take it seriously.

I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.

When you spend your days doing what fulfills you, you are attractive.

There is Life in every breath.