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

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

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.

Be strong and begin again!

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

A joke is necessary at this time.

I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches.

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx.

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.