I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

It’s not about fancy literary prizes. It’s not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I’m not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that’s all.

It's really unfortunate that instead of focusing on the really important issues in our world, Donald Trump chooses to make personal attacks on people.

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.