When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

My months are spent preparing for the fall.

Prayer is the companion of Bible study.

The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves.

Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.