Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

What will survive of us is love.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

If you have a vision from God, It means you have the ability to fulfill it

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Everyday is a good day, just some days are better

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

The great artist takes what he needs.

There are plenty of Christian writers out there telling people what they should think. I'm happy to be one of the Christian writers simply telling people to think. For themselves.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.