A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?

The empty nest is underrated.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

In my wildest dreams i never thought- well, I never thought I'd work