I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Beauty is truth's smile, when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.

When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.