As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.