One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.

There will never be another like the other. A mother remains like no other... the same with friends and foes. Nothing replaces the other.

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.