History is absolutely my thing.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

When I hear that people live by the book, I always wonder which one.

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

Love is love. It doesn't matter what kind it is.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.