A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.