You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

No! Wait! I've got a better idea...""Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.""And your point is...""Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.

He who at night feeling tired because of working in the daytime, then at night he was forgiven of Allah" —

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land

How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

Regency romances end in marriage zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Most right-wing person I know!

I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.