There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

The world is full of places to which I want to return

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.