Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

If believing were simple, then this world wouldn’t be in the mess that it is today.

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?