But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.

You challenge me to be a better person. And no one else does that, except maybe my mother.

You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.

And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.

You're safe now.

Her face a mask of fury and determination.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.