We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

You should not have assault rifles in your home.