“How strange it is to view a town you grew up in, not in wonderment through the eyes of youth, but with the eyes of a historian on the way things were.”

“‎"There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.”

“Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be”

“It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.”

“The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it contains discrepancies, some non historical legends, and polemics.”

“His eyes blazed, meeting mine. "You can't be friends with the person you were meant to spend your life with," he said his eyes darkening.”

“General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”