Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

There is no such thing as a publishable first draft.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

[P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.

If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time you'll need some roughness and some dirt.

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

His words filled my heart to the brim. I loved him in a way I’d never be able to express in words. He was part of me. And I was part of him. Tethered together for the rest of eternity.

As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.