Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn’t be fair if you didn’t throw some punches back at it

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Don’t use yesterday’s state of mind, to make today’s decision.

Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

When we are babies…we need an authoritative figure to guide and take care of us. We ask no questions about that authority and imagine that the small circumference of family life is the limit of...

Are you a Christian? she said.I answered:I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim. I am each and everyone of you my child, look into the mirror and...

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his...

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

just what you like” then the System loves you.

A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun as they gallantly cast a shade over the earth. On the...

It’s tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn’t do so before or after.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

The glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armor against Fate.Death lays his icy hand on kings…

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as ‘the decline and fall of red’ or ‘the rise and triumph of...

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives…he listened in fascination...

That’s the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You’re all brainwashed into...

Many people pretend to be in thought, proving thought to be a beautiful thing. But the bald man doesn’t need a comb, the tiger doesn’t need weapons, the fool doesn’t need thought. The person with...

Have you ever wondered which hurts more:Saying something and wishing you hadn’t, or saying nothing and wishing you had?

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don’t out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

But only a leper shows its sins to the world.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, ‘I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,’ Epictetus replied, ‘I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I...

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

I have watched the tears of frustration of a stroke victim or the autistic child who struggles to communicate a need or thought, but no one understands. Eventually, the soul grows quiet and gives up....

Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful and has a shameful, ugly side to it that I’ll bet...

It’s like a lion at the door;And when the door begins to crack,It’s like a stick across you back;And when your back begins to smart,It’s like a penknife in your heart;And when your heart begins...

I have mo prejudice against the Southern people… They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now...

We’d stared into Death’s eyes and Death blinked first.

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

Do any of them realize that Simon Wolfgard is falling in love with Meg Corbyn? Monty wondered. Does Wolfgard understand his own response to the girl? What about Meg? How does she feel? What would...

I have lost patience with the idea of an insignificant human being standing up above the rest of us–whether he is called Reverend or Doctor or Judge–and shouting at us all about this thing or...

It seems to me that really crazy people don’t think they’re crazy. Why would you?

Don’t turn over rocks if you don’t want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.

If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.” He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?

What shall a man gain if he has the whole world and lose his soul,” (Matt. 16: v. 26) – but for a notorious name, the ethereal shadow of a career, and a brief life...

We’re authors, too,” Donegan said, “and we’ve been trying to get into the picture-book market. We have this idea for a Where’s Wally type thing, except in ours, you’d have to find the one living...

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You’ve been going along from one day...

There’s only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

If we are interested in a writing life – as opposed to a writing career – then we are in it for the process and not the product – for the body of work and...