Nothing gets stronger without resistance.
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.
I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.
Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.