Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar.

Life is so transient, finite, and fragile that there is no time to hate anyone.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.