Whenever you feel insignificant, remember that you can makea significant differencein the lives of others, particularly the less fortunate.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.