... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.

Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it?

The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.

My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.

We are one.

LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable.

After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

Consciously cultivate the ordinary.

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.