I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.