The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

There is something talismanic about familiar words.

Our audacity must be rooted in our humility.

....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.

I am here in spirit with you and you are in my prayers. Remember God is with you, and have faith in the fact that this too shall pass.

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing.

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love.

We must not close with Christ because we feel Him, but because God lias said it, and we must take God's word even in the dark.