I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

Let us be merciful as well as just.

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.

Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!

It takes quite a while for the living to catch up with the believing, but of course it can. As we live up to the highest light we have, more light is given.

Alex Riley is a star - he looks like a star, acts like a star. He is a star.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.