The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

There is no fifth destination.

Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of cookies. I approved of their priorities.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.

Spank me, whip me, let me come back home. Break out the leather, baby.

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.