A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

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.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us