War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.

Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

Never was strumpet faire.

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.