I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

I inhale hope with every breath I take.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

All I need is you even if I don't know if I can't have you.

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

I quit because I'm so tired of hearing bad news about cigarettes... Even if they discover good news, they don't publicize it - like the fact that smoking seriously reduces the risk of jogging.

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.

I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game. I want to add to that.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.