I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Authors do not supply imaginations.

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Don't Trust BlindlyIf in shark infested waters, don't assume the fin coming toward you is a dolphin.

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.

Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward — believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

Time is an available instrument for reaching the eternal.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

The only real freedom we have left is the home. Only there can we express anything we want.