Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

I don't think when I make love.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face, I pretend that they're not there. But I actually like being on my own, I like being in the space.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.