To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Let's be honest - look what Hollywood at 18 is.

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

We're not godly because we're perfect. We're godly because we're perfectly broken.