We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

God bless our journey on earth.

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

If you have health, you have everything.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.