Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Let your light shine brightly.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

But...that doesn't make any sense...!''It does if you're a goat.

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.