Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon