A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.