For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.

People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths.

Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.

Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe.

Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.

Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you.

And I saw you and I thought, she'd be a cosy fit inside my arm.

Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course

What drives your passion?

To make a miracle, all you have to do is share a little of the magic.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.