Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

Make sure you speak out and loud enough to be heard.

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.

I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

We have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn't have them.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

'Did you live here?' Leif asked. I nodded. 'For two years'.'Where did you stay?' 'I had a room in Valek's suite.' Leif shot me an incredulous look. 'Boy, you worked fast.'

I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.

Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired.