I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

Science is the search for truth.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.