All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.