...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

Discovery is the joy.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course.

It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

When you pick up the cross of unpopularity, wherever you may be, you will find God’s grace is there, more than sufficient to meet your every need.

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

I always change my hair, but I don't like haircuts!

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked.