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.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.