I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

the elephant can remember.

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

My doctors say the more I continue to push, the more I can continue to raise that bar, the better I can get.

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.

Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.