My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

I'm a human being before anything else.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.