What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write