In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.

When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.

Calling people

You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

Are you afraid, Tessa?

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry