Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived.

What you are good at, you never do it free!

A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl’s immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.

Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.

Take time everyday to shift from immersion in human-centric thinking to ecoexperience.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.