I'm constantly being visually stimulated..

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination ….

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way..

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is..

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us..

She had a way of embroidering life with stars..

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has chan….

Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be..

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort..

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun..

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after..

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world..

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way..

A good story should change the way you see the world..

Separating is not divorcing. Please keep that in mind. It is, instead, the second step in seeing if there's a better way to manage your family..

Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss..

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are..

The longer they hang out, the deeper the history, the richer the life. If you use that as a template or as a way of realizing things, then I don't th….

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us e….