Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

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.

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

I only really work when I want to.