science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.