I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

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

I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

Reality isn't what it used to be.