You will never be lost to me, Selinne.

If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.

You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.