As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

The “Gospel” is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation. Romans 1:16

The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

If you get made fun of working at Pier One Imports, you can't pelt them with poop.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.

Bloom where you are planted!

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.