He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.

Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment. God bless you.

Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.

...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment

As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much

Thought is the strongest thing we have.

I love skin care and actually wanted to be an esthetician for many years.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

...we make our lives by what we love.

And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.

What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?