Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.