Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.

Where is the peace that should with thee abide O Earth?

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

Time is generally the best doctor.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

I've always feel like it's been my place to offer an alternative.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.