I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

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.

Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it.

I can't find the words." She stared daggers at him. "Don't hurt yourself trying.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.

Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.

Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

Home is a place from which you can draw strength.