“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”

“If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.”

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”

“The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction? ...Offering others what you have to give.”

“Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”

“Ben Says: Never be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. No one can drive you crazy unless you give them the keys!”