Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.