Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

We live in a society where we may have differences, of course, but we learn to celebrate these differences.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.