And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.

The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.

Lord give us success today.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.