You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.

If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.

Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody’s telling you to keep your mind clear?

...Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything....

"Well-- I don’t know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."

I don’t believe it! You’re still interested in the girl, despite the fact that she might be some kind of alien. Does this sickness of yours have any bounds?

I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

You have to go through the fires to be tested by faith.

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

A desire to choose the hardest might be a confession of weakness in itself.

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

Love has more depth as you get older.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.