Taylor Caldwell

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.