"There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog."

“And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.”

“This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific explanation. It splits the world of the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to protect our cherished free will.”

“Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.”

“I brake for brunettes.”

Source : Song: I Brake For Brunettes

“I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.”

“I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.”

“To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.”

“Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from love which hath still been true.”

Source : Martha Finley (2016). “COMING OF AGE COLLECTION – Timeless Children Classics For Young Girls: Complete Elsie Dinsmore & Mildred Keith Series: Including the Novels Edith’s Sacrifice, Ella Clinton, Signing the Contract and What it Cost, The Thorn in the Nest & The Tragedy of Wild River Valley (With Original Illustrations)”, p.783, e-artnow