I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine.

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

Our intentions create our reality.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.