Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

Jesus Christ saves the lost sheep.

You can't do everything but you can do something!

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.