Dance in the fullness of time.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

Jace stood up, knocking his chair back violently. "You are not taking Clary to the Seelie Court without me and THAT is FINAL.

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

If you're doing something that you love to make a living, make sure you love it and make sure you do it.

If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.