I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

But you built me dreams instead...

All the most difficult problems become easy when we find the solutions.

commitment stays on, both in good and in bad, for better for worste

Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace.

Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.