God draws straight with crooked lines.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.