Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

Queenie Hennessy - "I am here to die."Sister Mary Inconnue - "Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference.

I grew up a dreamer, lonely, one foot on the earth, the other on the moon.

I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.

That's the trouble with you preachers, " he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything, " and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

There is no story that is not true, " said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet

I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.

The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.