The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Your religion is where your love is.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

Master of Life is the person who is best at keeping the brutal scars of life to a minimum!

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.