The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'!

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.

Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.

...I want it to be as easy as breathing for you to say yes.

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented.Reality needs none of the above.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.