We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

Respect all men but fear none.

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.