May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth?

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Evil doesn't just go away.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.

Straw purchasing is illegal.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.