If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.

Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

Perhaps gratitude and love are one and the same.

Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

I got fired once for putting like a packet of biscuits through a fan - I was really bored.

It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.