A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.

As the family goes, so go the children.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

Hillary Clinton is very strong and very smart.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

I can play anywhere on the park. Im a bit like that in bed, too