We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.