Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

When God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be that they have an impact on their decisions to trust Christ or not.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.

What labels me, negates me.