A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

Android was built to be very, very secure.

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.