One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

At some point you have to stop crossing oceans for those who wouldn't jump puddles for you.

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,

Even though that God didn't bring you on earth to turn you into a failure, He still expects you to always do your best before He can do the rest for you.

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

I'm the one and only. In heaven and on Earth

Love is a sacred silence.