A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

...it has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.

Woman won't accept to be your second option, either you choose her or you lose her.

The grace of God comes swiftly to the soul when endurance is no longer possible.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.