No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Our confidence is the grace of faith in Jesus Christ.

For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable?

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It’s been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.