I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor...And you want the flavor!

When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

If you are inspiring others to do better, you're successful.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.