If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

How sweet it is!

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

Thin people are beautiful but fat people are adorable.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day youre off it.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you are off it.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

The worst thing you can do with money is save it.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot, and then moving on to writing full prose on the tiny QWERTY keyboard of my iPaq smartphone. I got so fast that I was averaging 400 words during the 35 minutes or so I spent on the subway each way, or 800 words round trip.

Miramax didn't introduce the actors at any of the screenings. That's why a lot of people thought 'Kids' was a documentary. I still meet people who think it was real.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

I remember playing 'Mortal Kombat' when I was a kid and the other 'Tekken'-style games.

A stream where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb may wade.

People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

I cry at the end of every book.

You need a dragon hidden inside you. When you need,you let the dragon out

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

We struggle with eating healthily obesity and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.

I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I've grown into my own man, I don't attach myself to a religion - 100 per cent, I have faith. Then it's locking into what suits me.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be, and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.