A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.

That's my secret and my shame. I'm Nona Grey, war is in my veins, and the screams of my enemies are music to me.

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.

Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.

Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.

The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.

You can't make footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time?

You know, Alexia started, “I will be deeply disappointed if the apocalypse starts in Portsmouth.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

I'm thinking of taking a window cleaner's job to fill the spare hour in the evening.