This woman is so didactic I think I may scream. If it's bleeding, bandage it. If it's crying, hug it. If it's hopeless, pray for it. If it's dead, resurrect it.

In the grand timeline of life, two years is nothing. Here she is, her dream resurrected. Alive and soon to be kicking in fact. Dead isn't always dead.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Damn it, " I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton."He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face. "Eat him, " he said.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.