That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.