Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.