...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

Parent may hinder their children's marriage

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.