with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice.

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?

I know what it’s like to miss someone. To feel like you’re just…wandering around, lost.

You say you’re sick, huh? Well, it looks like you’ve come down with a case of bullshit.

If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.

The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?

You hated my rainbows, now you don't like my leather. Is there anything you like on me?

What's on your mind becomes what's in your life. So think the thoughts you want to see.

What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.

Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.

Wraith held up his hands. "Chill, Gramps. I don't want to sit on your knee or anything.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.

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