There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?