Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

That which is called God's wrath, and anger, is a means of discipline.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.