The end is nothing; the road is all.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

You are self employed. You work to pay your bills, build your dreams and create your life, regardless of who signs your paycheck.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

God answers every prayer timely

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

The fashion world doesn't know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.