Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.

I always thought I was an extrovert until I became a theatre major. Then I realised I just didn't like silence.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.