Quotes About Author

Mother, you are hopeless" "Certainly not. Shameless, perhaps, but never hopeless.

As a memoirist, it's your job to impose order and meaning on the chaos of life.

What are you doing here?" Aberforth arched one overgrown eyebrow. "And to think Virginia is said to be the cradle of manners in this country." "I'm a New Yorker now. I'm practicing being rude.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

It would be too strong to say that because avowed atheism emerged riding on the back of the Enlightenment it should take the credit for its achievements. But it would be equally foolish to see the simultaneous emergence of modern atheism and the Enlightenment as purely coincidental.

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

If you want to be rid of me, very well, I also want to be rid of you, but amicably and in good order.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")

exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen "Eyes," and was in hysterics.

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

Rain makes applesauce. Oh, you're just talking silly talk!

Come, lass, I'll make a fire for us, and you can curl up in a warm bed of fur, and then I'll make a necklace for you out of all the pretty bones from the soldiers I murdered tonight.

will not be defined by my past, nor will I harbor bitterness toward those who wronged me. Instead I will pity them, for they do not know compassion or forgiveness.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Mara wonders how many of those golden names in the great halls had dreamswomen as mothers - women who helped them find and follow a dream.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

Get to your dusting, slave-girl. We vacationing men will take over the sleuthing!

Jane's little cowgirl seemed made to order for riding Tenny's bucking bronco.

She touched the words with the tip of her finger and smudged the pencil and then saw how the smudge stayed on her finger. Words from his hand transferred to her skin.