How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.

There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.