No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.
A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
I wish I knew how to quit you.
We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
Government is not show business.
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
There's no time to be bored. I'm so busy doing the horse dance. . .
Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?