I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

We have overcome heartaches by being kind to others and by supporting each other.

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

Another tea-time, another day older.

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.

Cindy is a terrific writer and has both a studied - and an intuitive - understanding of the best practices of no-hype, high results copywriting.

They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.