They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

If they really want us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

Don’t believe me, believe your Bible!

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Close the language-door, and open the love-window

Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.