We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors...

Magic isn’t a far-off phenomenon.

The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.

Storm the castle Stem the tide Rise above yourself Cry baby cry Cry cry to heaven If that doesn't do it for you Go ahead and cry like hell

He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.