I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.

Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.