We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

High heels off; I'm feeling alive.

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.