“… but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.”

But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive.

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?.

Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.

There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom

The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little.

For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.