Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.