Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.

Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.

Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free.

Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.

Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.

The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.

I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.

Some of us had been running all our lives. We ran because we could and because we could not. We ran for our lives. We still thought they were worth running for.

What is God's part and what is man's part? God's part is grace. Man's part is faith.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Love is better than Fame.

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.

If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.