Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

Sometimes the MOM who's always there for everyone else, needs someone to be there for HER.

Christians who are strong in the faith grow as they accept whatever God allows to enter their lives.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.