if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.

I do need a bit of a trim but I'm a bit nervous about getting it cut

That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.

I'm taking my skills to different people's homes that have stoves for it.