We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

Beloved, it's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

Endurance is a good virtue.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Only thing on right now, like a night light.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.