Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

I should like to see you try.

I'm no good at being good.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Stop living a double life, God isn't looking for a part- time christian but he's looking for a full-time Christian.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.

'With God all things are possible' (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all the worlds stand by the Word of God.

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Just pray and God gone make a way

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.