“On romance books: We might assume then that men, major consumers of thrillers, westerns, and detective fiction, enjoy being beaten up, tortured, shot, stabbed, dragged by galloping horses, and thrown out of moving vehicles.”

“Enjoy fantasy for what it is, fantastic! Not for what it might be.”

“Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.”

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest”

“Grace just is. Nobody can explain it, and it's not something you can deserve. Whether you recognize it or not, whether you feel grateful for it or not, it just is. Guilty or innocent, condemned or redeemed, when you think that you can't go on, and when you think you've already gone on, grace is wider and deeper than you think, and it can change far more that you ever imagined.There is no place where anything begins or ends, but by grace, everything comes in it's time.”

“Wear reality with grace, the alternative is awful.”