The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring.
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?
I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.
Conversing with children is a fine art. . . . An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.
I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.
I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
The faith I was born into formed me.
Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.