I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Mind what people do not only what they say for deeds will betray a lie.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Sometimes thats all life is... One desperate act after another.

The worse you are at thinking the better you are at drinking.

Ive always said fantasy is sort of stealth philosophy.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away and shows us that the shape of our fear is only the ghost of our own minds.

Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her that she had always been a part of him that her needs were his needs.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.

I haven't eaten meat since I was 17, so I take Vitamin C, a B complex, Omegas-3-6-9, glucosamine, and antioxidants to make sure my body stays healthy.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of "The Lord of the Rings". From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

I want Thailand to be a peaceful country.

I wanted to stay home and go to Maryland because I'm really the man of my house. We lost our father when I was 14. Somebody had to be there, so I had to take it and put that on my shoulders.

I've always been an entertainer all my life; I come from a family of entertainers. I always made, very pretentiously, a comparison with Agatha Christie. Her inspiration was crime, and I'm sure she must have taken courses or read about crime, because it was the basis of her stories. But ultimately, it was her own fantasy.

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

I don't like possessions.

If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.