What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.