He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that with so many trees as wardens, no danger could find him.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

We're on tour for six months out of the year.

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

[Hillary Clinton] is also smart, she talks to people, she hears, and she says, "OK, I need to update, we need some much bigger changes."