Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

Everything is fair in love and art.

He imagined forgiveness was like flying, that it made you soar. He imagined that it looked like an eagle, a silver bolt in the sky, that it was pure light.

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

No matter how good a story is, there is more at stake in the telling.

I was a star in England, but Ive never been a star in America. Now I am.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Make A Difference Day is a great way to introduce kids to the rewards of volunteering. It's fun, it's focused and it's empowering to know that millions are motivated to do the same.

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

If your husband has difficulty getting to sleep, the words 'we need to talk about our relationship' may help.

I don't see it as a risk, I see it as living.