I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

There is nothing more worthwhile than knowing that you know...

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.

I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts — or does not react — by putting it on paper.

Somehow you've come past the realm of just knowing about this Person called Jesus Christ and He is real to you.