The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.

I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.