James A. Michener

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.