And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

The rottenness comes from within.

I am all that there is of the most real.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.