One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.