I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.