Gran...I just want to say thank you for everything. I didn't realize how much you sacrificed.” “Children never do. Good Lord made it that way.

Don't ever let fear get in the way because you never know what's going to open a door.

Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.

Without setbacks there'd be no comebacks, and everyone loves a come.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.