It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

If you want to be happy, be.

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth

What happens to other species also happens to us.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.