In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spe….

Picturize, prayerize, actualize..

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with honestly, with suffici….

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been….

[CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation un….

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worke….

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present..

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept th….

The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelli….

I would rather be dead than not read.

Your life on the Outside reflects your life on the Inside.

I imitate everyone except myself..

Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices..

Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five min….

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for t….

So, it's good to be here, wherever I am..

The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me..

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time.

We're going to start walking again. We can't stand still, you know. Not as long as we're still alive..