Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten- the secrets of married women by Carol Mason

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.