Pastoral Resources

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.