There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational.

If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit.

You love me?''Baby, you were made for me.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

I just don't think it's healthy to only have one pursuit, even if it's a seemingly positive thing. You can do a positive thing to the nth degree, and it turns on you at some point. You become stuck.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

We're lost, but we're making good time.