I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Everything worth doing involves risk.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

Wait until you see him up on a horse

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead.Home.

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

In solitude when we are least alone.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.