There's no substitute for loyalty.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

Our reality is a blend of the impossible becoming possible.

I mean you ACRES of harm, ' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me.

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.