To preserve the past is to save the future...

Having no curiosity can be a dangerous thing..

The one thing no one can ever take from you is your education…

Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...

Reading doesn't put you to sleep... it makes you dream...

God's beauty is better by far than anything that comes out of a jar..

A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered…

Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen...

We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak...

We must believe there are places where tranquility still exists and nature is given back her power to speak

To rid oneself of the past is to forgo the future...

We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.

Faith fertilizes dreams.

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.