But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

The king was pregnant.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.

Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam

Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it’s not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But yourheart believes you can soar, glide and fly.

I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.