Don't go where I can't follow!

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!

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two

Everyone has a talent, and gifts shouldn't be judged by their glory factor

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.