They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

I don't break the rules, I simply bend them in my favor.

I don't want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine.

Few things are more annoying than too many of any one ethnicity in the same room.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

You can’t have peace without a war.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

I'm not a natural songwriter.