I'd like to see Paris before I die.
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.
I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.
The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.
If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or worked for this country or have - or - and is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Africa and Asia to try and buy friendship of people who will never be friendly toward them, then they should be even more quick to spend some - whatever amount of money is necessary to get inside of their house straight, before it's too late.