I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.

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.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.