We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.