Everyone fears and courts his own demon.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me.

To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.

Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.

We do not actually know other people

I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things.

No can do. Wren stays here. (Dev) Not what I was told. (Varyk) Well, I just told you. (Dev)