If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.