One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

When you don't find a way... don't wait every time for others, Sometimes you have to be your own angel.

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.

Only if I could be known for being one of the world's greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.