Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Lonely was much better than alone.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

This is unacceptable! We’re English, damn it! We know how to build things where they shouldn't be!" - Governor Dewar

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas.

IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn’t face much competition.