Lonely was much better than alone.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

To touch the heart of heaven, win a soul for heaven!

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men—never!

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

You don’t swing where you sleep.

It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.