Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

Service to God is largely unacceptable without service to men

If we fail to do something, the people following us will have nothing to build upon

How much is real and for how long..

Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up, ” she used to warn me.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

A natural adversary is a customer service representative.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.