Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill, not once or twice, but until your readers are shivering.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to make it a reality more than the visionary.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

It's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false.

To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.