When God breaks in, the only thing you can do is believe it or not. YOu cannot ask for a receipt of the transaction or a sign for the dubious. God does not offer to cover your backside.

Emotion is the poetry of life.

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

Actually, when you get into your sixties and above, you want to think about exercise differently. It's not just about you know cardiovascular or lifting weights. It's also about avoiding accidents.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.