Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

A storm is never quiet because it is always calling out to the rainbow.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

I drive the same car that I've driven since I was 16. That's who I am.

Each color lives by its mysterious life.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.