Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

You don't know, oh, ohYou don't know you're beautiful.

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads

A seed, in order to grow, must first be planted under the best conditions. Be that space or time. I think, therefore, that you have yet to find your perfect conditions.

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him."You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

I always think I look better after a yoga class. It's the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we're relaxed.

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

I read books to read myself.

I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.