Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.

The most diplomatic statement you can use for the person you hate:"If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...I would drink IT.

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

We are God's partners in matters of life and death.

Of course you want your son, your children, to be proud of you.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.