Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!

I want my rockstars dead.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.

He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.