Simplicity allows a measure of freedom which the complexities of modern life greedily consume – freedom to think, to reflect, to create, to serve and be sincerely generous with our time and presence.

Love by its very nature is extravagant, but we poor human beings, so caught up in fear and worry, limit the very love we were created to bring into the world.

Often someone else's words can provoke us to memories both painful and sweet, and remind us of things we should have learned, but sometimes forget.

Within the mystery of death, love stands guard and waits, filling the moments that "are" with itself, so that the moments to come will never be empty, never devoid of someone so loved.

Don't worry about the negative people may say about you. Learn from it and move on.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

Doors are for people with no imagination.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

Testosterone levels are highest in the morning.