We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.