Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet

Waiting is a risk to something or nothing, its on your own Decision if you'll stay and still with your Patience.

We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, 'Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by.'

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

A delay does not solve the revenue problem.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.