One always has riches when one has a book to read.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

Never judge a journey by the distance.

Conversion is the key to maintaining wealth

Avoid scoffers.Ignore doubters.Reject mockers.Surprise detractors.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves.

I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.