Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

She inhaled again. 'You made it rain, ' she said softly, delighted. 'Everyone needs a respite from the sun.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

When I'm told something can't be done, I am inevitably attracted to that particular challenge.