Even the people who once fought for others tend to get weak and eventually "give up" and lose interest in the worth of fighting any longer.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

He'll come back, " Simon said again. "For you.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

Every book is a unique experience.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.