If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. – James Michener
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. – James Michener
An age is called “dark,” not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. – James Michener
Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and its not just having a daughter, its wanting to have your own life and be yourself. – Helen Hunt
Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne