If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still."And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Love, that moves the sun and the other stars

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss.

The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

God's greatest gift to manIn all the bounty He was moved to makeThroughout creation-the one gift the mostClose to his goodness and the one He callsMost precious-is free will.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.