And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

I don't like when everything sounds the same.

America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.