[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.

The way to know life is to love many things.

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.