Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

We are our best guide and a friend. Our problems arise when we start looking for one elsewhere.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.

What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.

Smile. It gives your face something to do.