Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

And i chose life and love and happiness and pain...

I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments.

I have read the last page of the Bible. It isall going to turn out all right.

It's evil, Jo. It exists in all forms of life and death.

Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better.

Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.