Words shall not be hidnor spells buriedmight shall not sink undergroundthough the mighty go.

For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands    towards these strange doors    to these foreign gates.

God is the greatest problem solver, without Him we are doomed.

Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they’ve never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people’s minds, exposing them to the light.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Ideas are incestuous.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.