“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”

“If you pick a fight with one man or woman who is in pain you are already out numbered.”

“If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?”

“Disbelief in GOD is like living in the city and denying the people who have been to the country and tell you about it.”

“There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.”

“Prayer is much like sending up a flare. You see it Bright and up there and you know why its there. Your just waiting for signs it was heard”

“He pushed a finger through the surface of the water to trace the outline of her mouth. Ethereal bits of flesh floated loosely about his knuckle and nail. Then, calmly, he pulled her body up out of ...”

“The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.”

“For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”

“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”