All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

George R.R. Martin

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

Either these unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Dwight L. Moody

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

Marilynne Robinson

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

Cindy Crawford

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Barack Obama

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Eric Hoffer

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Michael Sheen

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

Matthew Arnold

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Erich von Stroheim

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

Leo Tolstoy