The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Hope can live in a vacuum.

In darkness I follow the light and find my way to the beginning again, and again, and again.

For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

Somebody's got to win this war, right?

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.

If the British had fought half as well as this one kissed, she thought, the Americas would still be a colony.

Hard to find and even harder to listen to

The poor need help today, not next week.

And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.

Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.