House of Leaves is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but its also about recovering from fear.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I don't have a story, " I said. "I'm still waiting for one.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.