The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Failure makes Success more appreciable

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

One's interest or need does not annul other's right.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was another novel to write that I was going to write another.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

If you really, really want to help people, stop denying them their dreams when they're young.