To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try to mimic godliness.

Love is still alive in my heart. Dreams are still alive at the dead of night. Hopes are still dancing in my mind.

Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.