The people who love you will guide you like bright lights into the other worlds.

I'm a witch and witches burn.

I remember what I must do, even if it makes me the villain of my own story

But—I’m leaving.”Not without me.

Nostalgia is a lane of calm comfort, charming even a complacent heart!

Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.

The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.