I do love competence in a man.

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.

Successful politicians are people who know how to make us think well of them without our realizing that that’s what they’re doing

Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.

I take away something from every role.

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.