We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

There are some debts that can't be paid with money.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race, God will take care of your critics.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.