In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Isak Dinesen

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours

Ambrose Bierce

I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

Tabitha Suzuma

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Charles Lyell

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

Patricia Hewitt

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--

Cassandra Clare

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

Paula Danziger

Train our children to love God.

Daniel H. Hill

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Jeffrey Kluger

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

Carl Sagan

I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.

Steven Wright

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

William Shakespeare