The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
Campus. . . brings back so many memories that I would. . . have made.
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
It's never too early for ice cream.
Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.
My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many.
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.
Nature abhors the vacuum tube.
Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.