It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

Style is important, but content comes first.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

Cry as much as you want to, but make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again

Within the mystery of death, love stands guard and waits, filling the moments that "are" with itself, so that the moments to come will never be empty, never devoid of someone so loved.

But sometimes we crave the love of those we’re afraid to hate.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.